Interesting Facts About United States 16th President Abraham Lincoln
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Many knew Abraham Lincoln as an American politician, statesman, and the 16th president of the United States. Below are things many people probably didn’t know about Abraham Lincoln.
1. Abraham Lincoln never slept in the current Lincoln bedroom during his time at the White House. Instead, the bedroom was used as his personal office where he met his cabinet members and appended his signature to important documents.
2. Lincoln’s voice was high-pitched contrary to his tall and imposing stature that is characteristically associated with a deep voice.
3. He wasn’t good at spelling and often misspelled the word “inaugural” and instead, wrote “inaugeral”. This mistake was noticed in a note to John Hay, his secretary.
4. Lincoln created the secret service on April 14, 1865, and was assassinated the same evening at Ford’s Theatre. He had signed legislation hours earlier to tackle widespread currency counterfeiting. It was later in 1901 that the secret service began protecting the president after two more presidents were killed.
5. Lincoln’s mother, Nancy died in 1818 as a result of milk poisoning when Abraham was only nine years old. A strange ‘milk sickness’ affected Southern Indiana and was blamed on drinking milk from a cow that had consumed poisonous white snakeroot.
6. Abraham Lincoln received a patent in 1849 while in Congress for inventing a device that would lift boats over shallow river waters. To date, he remains the only U.S. president who received a patent.
